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Rest In Peace. I thought it was strange that he stepped down as Finance Minister but continued to sit as an MP. His health was a problem which is why he was taking steroids... which may have led to his heart attack?

@Karl Burgin
you of all people will defend the right to post an opinion in the comment section. You say some incredibly stupid stuff and I always defend you. You always say that every one is entitled to their opinion so why are you being stupid now?

They say that you should only speak good of the dead...Flaherty is dead...good!

@Mark7
@ Mark 7-A right to be heard for opinions are good even if there are differences. It is civilized to learn as a society to agree to disagree while maintaining respect for each other. Whatever happened to you in the past is so sad that has made you this angry, disrespectful and unsympathetic even when a family is experiencing a great loss. You enjoy bashing people when the truth doesn’t come your way. Your way or the highway. Your way or you bash them. How do you teach your kids to be a great people when they rise on occasions while continue to be humble and gracious to the competitor. That or maintain their integrity when they loose (as simply one cannot win all the time). Compassion is a great virtue. Something clearly – everyone cannot see in your manner of speaking. You sound quite illiterate. I’ve met many men or high education and not without education. The one that is always most respected is the one who is always gracious, kind and giving. Not the one who speaks with strife.

@Mike
The fact is MIKE, that's not really MARK7- its someone posting as him- because he's too cowardly to use his own ID. And reasoning won't work.His response to me is a facetious one, with a tinge of having a mocked tone. Don't waste your energy trying to convince him- he is too far gone. And God help us if he has kids- I would feel sorry for them the most. But I highly doubt that he has any offspring.Even on a regular day, most ignore him. But on the day when a noble politician's life is cut unexpectedly short- especially one who has garnered so much honour and respect, that is the time you shut up and salute.

If fake MARK7 isn't even capable of doing that, then the best course of action is to just shun him.

@Karl Burgin
i agree neither the time or the place. sounds like the same asshole that made fun of the war vets on remembrance day . good thing this asshole is the only one who is on this post . ( i hope ) . JIM was a good man . the only politician i ever liked even more then Harper . this jackass dos not understand is that if it was not for him this country would be worse then the USA . as in bankrupt . as in Detroit . as in rescission . as a fellow Irishman see u in heaven . and R.I.P.

It is so often the case, we don't realize the magnitude of a loss till we look at the person in hind-site. In 2008 Canada had the 110% right man in the job of Finance Minister when the recession hit.Steering us thru the maelstrom and coming out in better shape than ANY other G7(8) country - was ours. The other big loss is what - even in the private sector - this man could have done for Canada over the next decade or two.

We Canadians are very fortunate to have had Jim Flaherty as Finance Minister. He was one of the best this country has ever seen. By all accounts he was also a very smart and decent person. Canada is a little worse off today.

@SojBee
Paul Martin was arguably one of our best Finance Ministers, the only one that balanced the budget and began to pay off the deficit. Stephen Harper's policy of reckless spending to buy votes (gazebos, disastrous stimulus packages, tax cuts for the rich, bailouts, etc.) destroyed everything he did. Flaherty was a nice guy but he politicized the finance portfolio.

@Peter
Neither the time nor the place, given his sad, tragic death, the life he Gave to Canada, the Canadian People while sacrificing his personal and family time.... Can I ask, are you completely blind to the fact that Martin Lead this country's finances through the most prosperous times ??? Financially the times leading up to the Recession are always flourishing... Sorry but any monkey could of lead Canada through the best financially viable times... Put a Hero in like Flaherty during the worst of times and that is the measure of man. Never compare yourself to the worst in your class, always the best, your parents should have taught you that... shame.

@Peter
You realize, do you not, that Martin balanced his budget on the backs of the provinces? He wiped everything off of HIS desk, and dumped it onto the provinces' desk. Then he stood there and said, "Look, MY desk is clean! Look at me!" Is that the way you like your budgets balanced? Really? That, to you, is being a good finance minister? I'm frankly not surprised you vote liberal.

@NICHOLS
I do appreciate that you didn't necessarily see eye-to-eye with the man. But you can critique his failings afterward.

I never really did see eye-to-eye with Jack Layton either. But the day he died, I didn't feel like picking him apart because of his failings either. I was just as saddened to see him go rather pre-maturely. And we have to start putting the good politicians we do have on a pedestal.

@Peter
Paul Martin now theirs a scum bag i like to see go . Harper did not waste money on stuff . u are getting it confused with mc dickhead and Katleen Wynne . thay wasted more money then of them combine .

@john
Is your head zippered up the back? Forget all those gazebos up north?, the fake lake?, the wasted stimulus dollars that went nowhere?, the bailouts for companies that weren't bankrupt?, the senate scandal?

And much much more. Harper and Flaherty defined the gravy train, spent our money with abandon...just look at the deficit and debt after Harper took over.

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